Fudo Waterfall, by Ando Hiroshige

As I mentioned in the story, most of the designs in this Hiroshige set really are pretty bad. The prints themselves are made well - nicely carved and printed - but whoever designed them sure didn't spend much time on the job. This one isn't too bad, though ...

Not sure if I should write about this or not ... but ... When I was doing the print run of this one, I had done a half-dozen impressions of the skin tone block before I noticed something; it seems I had cut the shape for his body just a little bit on the large side, and there was a small dab of pinkish pigment just peeking out from below his loincloth. I realized that this might lead people who were looking at the print very closely to perhaps see something there that wasn't particularly intended ... (!) So I re-touched the block at that point to remove the wood, and keep the print 'safe' for all viewers!

But I didn't remember this when I was checking over the prints for signing and sealing, so I guess that those 6 or 7 prints have now 'escaped' into the wild ... Did you get one? :-)

Blocks: 7 cherrywood
Printing impressions: 9

• Key block
• Pale background tone ...
• Grey ...
• Second grey ...
• Blue water ...
• Skin tone (and under hillside ...
• Base green ...
• Deeper green ...
• Vermillion skirt ...